Monaro Pantherss

Riverside Stadium (Capacity: 1.000)

Monaro Panthers - Canberra Olympic (0:2) (ACT Premier League, 22. April 2012)
0:1 H. Tanoski (14.), 0:2 J. Ugranic (87.)

Attendance: 70
Cost: Free
Programme: Nil

AT the end and to the left is the entrance

 

Olympic on the attack as they were all game long

 

View from the top of the hill

 

And from behind the goals

 

The  subs bench and the clubhouse in the background

 

Olympic celebrating the first goal

 

Half time should equal beer time, but none for sale :-(

 

Ready for kickoff in the 2nd half

 

Olympic should have put more than 2 past Monaro

 

The grandstand could do with some replacement wood

 

Another view of the pitch

CLUB HISTORY: (club webpage)

Monaro Panthers is synonymous with excellence in Football in the Canberra Queanbeyan region. Monaro and football has an origin dating back many decades in the then form of Inter Monaro. Inter Monaro played football at the highest level in their time from winning the NSW State League and having a brief spell in the eighties in the National League before it fell away and disappeared from the football landscape for a almost ten years.

In 1995 it was revived by a new group, independent from the past as Monaro FC and entered the ACT Premier League which it won in 2001. It continued its transformation to become Monaro Panthers FC and began its journey of re-establishing itself as a club dedicated to the development of junior football.
Today the club boasts approximately 900 juniors, boy and girls aged 5 to 18 playing for the green and black.

With its growth have come many obstacles in catering for such a large club. The strain on our volunteers and facilities are the underlying areas of concern as we continue to grow. The club committee over the course of the past eight year has steered the club to a position of financial independence and stability, a name recognised with excellence and development and as a provider of a junior football program catering for both social and elite footballers.
The clubs achievements in past years have been both at the local and international level. We continually are represented across the state in various tournaments and are major participators in the Kanga Cup, a local football tournament with participants from all over the country as well as overseas.
Monaro is the only club in the ACT that has a relationship and exchange program with an international team and country. Over the past five years Monaro has successfully hosted Singok PS, a school with an elite football program from South Korea, and Monaro sending an U12’s team in 2008 to participate in the MBC International Youth Tournament.

The journey still continues. Monaro continually strives for excellence as well a expanding the opportunity to our juniors and later this year the club will endeavour to gain entry back in the ACT Premier League. This will crystallize the vision from 2001 that one united club in Queanbeyan, catering for both senior and junior football for boys and girls, from social to elite will promote and develop this great game into the twenty-first century.